A pandemic and attendant economic crisis rock the world along with political and social turmoil intensified by an overheating information environment and overheating climate. What's a solution-oriented human being to do?
Slow down and stretch your time scales, according to three experienced analysts of this extraordinary moment in human history.
Join the Earth Institute’s Andy Revkin, the philosopher Roman Krznaric, the journalist and resilience expert Bina Venkataraman and the filmmaker John D. Sutter in a discussion of ways to find meaning by stepping back from the urgency of now.
Krznaric's new book is "The Good Ancestor - How to Think Long Term in a Short Term World."
Learn more about him and the book here:
https://www.romankrznaric.com/good-ancestor
Bina Venkataraman is the editorial page editor of The Boston Globe. She previously taught in MIT’s program on science, technology and society, directed policy initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard & MIT and served as senior advisor for climate change innovation in the Obama White House.
She is the author of "The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age," named one of Amazon’s best books on business and leadership of 2019.
Learn more here: http://writerbina.com/
John D. Sutter, formerly a climate-focused CNN video journalist, has embarked on an epic “slow journalism” project, a film looking at climate change by visiting four dispersed communities every five years through 2050. He is working on the first installment, “Baseline: part 1." The name draws on the “shifting baselines” concept that each generation can miss momentous environmental change unfolding over long time scales.
https://www.baselinefilm.com/
Sustain What?
Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier.
This program contains audio highlights from hundreds of video webcasts hosted by Andy Revkin, founder of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative for Communication and Sustainability.
Dale Willman is the associate director of the initiative.
Revkin and Willman believe sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom?
Sustain What? is a series of conversations, seeking solutions where complexity and consequence collide on the sustainability frontier.
This program contains audio highlights from hundreds of video webcasts hosted by Andy Revkin, founder of the Columbia Climate School’s Initiative for Communication and Sustainability.
Dale Willman is the associate director of the initiative.
Revkin and Willman believe sustainability has no meaning on its own. The first step toward success is to ask: Sustain what? How? And for whom?Listen on
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